{"id":1139070,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cybera-linux-systems-administrator-12-month-contract","title":"Linux Systems Administrator (12 month contract)","company":{"id":1053572,"name":"Cybera","domain":"cybera.ca","url":"https://alion.io/company/cybera","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"BambooHR","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Calgary, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":84000,"max_usd":217000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":259},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"ClickHouse","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"Fluentd","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"OpenStack","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Puppet","optional":false},{"name":"Vector","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-20T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-20","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T04:38:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":66,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":66},"description":"Help us improve Alberta’s digital future!\nAre you a Linux expert who wants your work to mean more than just \"uptime\"? At Cybera, we don’t just manage servers, we build the digital backbone for Alberta’s researchers, educators, and innovators. We’re looking for a purpose-driven Systems Administrator to help us manage a unique hybrid environment, ranging from bare-metal OpenStack clusters to advanced public cloud integrations.\nCybera is a not-for-profit agency whose mission is to improve the lives of Albertans through the use and advancement of digital technologies. We serve the province’s education, enterprise, research and government sectors. We offer a number of services to our members, including having recently established a regional Security Operations Centre (rSOC) to monitor, detect, and respond to cybersecurity threats targeting Alberta’s post-secondary institutions.\nWhat You’ll Do\nEngineer R&E platforms:Take a hands-on role in deploying and managing the systems that underpin Alberta’s research and education community, including public clouds, regional security tools, and collaborative data environments.\nEnd-to-end infrastructure:Manage the full hardware-to-software lifecycle, from physical hardware maintenance to scaling environments via Infrastructure as Code (IaC).\nModernize operations:Collaborate on best practices for Kubernetes, Prometheus monitoring, and automated configuration management (Ansible/Puppet).\nSupport the community:Provide technical \"Tier 3\" style support for our member organizations in the public and education sectors, helping them integrate their systems with our public cloud and logging tools.\nBe part of an on call rotation:For applicable projects, we offer a compensated on call rotation.\nYour Technical Toolkit\nThe essentials:Solid Linux knowledge (you know your way around the kernel and shell), comfort with virtualization/containers, and a \"tinkerer\" mindset for hardware troubleshooting.\nSystem observability:A strong grasp of monitoring and alerting philosophy. You understand how to gain visibility into complex systems using metrics, logs, and traces (using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Clickhouse andZabbix).\nHybrid & multi-cloud infrastructure:Experience with managing diverse compute environments. You are comfortable navigating the nuances of private cloud orchestration (OpenStack) alongside public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).\nData telemetry & log management:An interest in building robust pipelines for system data. You understand how to ingest, transform, and route high-volume logs and event streams (leveraging technologies like Vector, FluentD,or Kafka).\nThese requirements represent an ideal candidate, however, we don't expect you to have them all! We thoroughly evaluate each candidate's overall potential and experience relative to the expectations and responsibilities of the role.\nCompensation and Location:\nThis role is a full time, temporary 12 month contract that is based in our Calgary office. Salary will be commensurate with experience. No relocation costs will be awarded.\nCondition of Employment:\nSelected candidates will be required to provide a satisfactory police information check as a condition of employment.\nBenefits of working at Cybera:\nThis is your opportunity to work for a flexible, tech-forward not-for-profit that is helping Canada become a more equitable place to work, learn, and play! We offer:\nA hybrid working environment, with flexible hours.\nHighly supportive and inclusive work culture.\n35 hour work weeks, except in July and August where we work 32 hour work weeks and have every Friday off.\nBenefits:\nHealth & Vision benefits from day 1\nLong & Short term disability benefits from day 1\nFlexible Health Spending Account (after successful probation)\nAnnual professional development funds\nRegular Lunch & Learns covering department updates to EDI topics\nRRSP program (after successful probation)\nHealthy snacks in the office - and sometimes unhealthy snacks\n10 days per year to use for sick time or mental health breaks\nThe opportunity to invest in yourself and your career\nHow to Apply:\nThis posting will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. Your application should include a resume and a short response (in your own words) to two application questions listed below. While we appreciate all applications, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls or recruiter assistance at this time, please.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income or family status of that person or of any other person.\nNumber of hires for this role: 1","description_format":"text","description_chars":4755,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Continuing Education","Data Science","Supply Chain"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T09:40:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":21,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.289,"p_room":0.72,"age_days":66,"expected_fill_days":127,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cybera-linux-systems-administrator-12-month-contract","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cybera-linux-systems-administrator-12-month-contract.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T08:01:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}